The investments will give Silver Lake and GIC equal and “significant” minority ownership stakes in Ancestry.com. Majority ownership will remain with current investors — Permira, Spectrum Equity and two company managers.

He has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He
has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware,
software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already
using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He
built his first home computer in 1980.